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F. ZALJS.

NUTCHACKER.

APPucATioN FILED SEPT. 16. 1918.

Patented Aug. 5, 1919.

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FRANK ZALJ S, OF CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Ang. 5, 1919.

Application led September 16, 1918. Serial No. 254,263.

To all whom it may concern:

VBe it known that I, FRANK ZALJS, a citizen of Russia, residing at Chester, countyT and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Nutcrackers, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to improvements in nut crackers, and has as its special object the provision of a simplel and inexpensive device by which nuts of variable types may be readily and easily cracked.

A further object is to provide a nut cracker which may be `folded into a very compact compass so as to be conveniently carried in the pocket of a garment.

These and other like objects are attained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawing, forming a material part of this disclosure, and .lin which Figure 1 is a side elevational view showing a plain form of a nut cracker, parts being in section in order to show the joint construction.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing a preferred form of nut cracker extended as in an operative position, and y "Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of the same, shown in a folded or collapsed posi tion.

1n the simple form shown in Fig. 1, a handle lever 10 is formed with an angularly bent portion 11, having an opening 12, receptive of the reduced end 1i of the mating lever 15, the two being pivotally connected bya pin 16, and the lower lever 10 copies of this patent may be obtained for having a recess 17, adapted to receive a portion of the shell of the nut to be cracked.

1n the modified forni shown in Fig. 2, the upper lever l5 has joined to it an extending handle 18, connected by the hinge 19, the lower lever 10 being similarly engaged with an extending handle 2() secured by the hinge 21.

Rigidly secured upon the upper portion of the handle 20 is a clip socket 23, in which is engageable the lower end of a bent flat spring 24; adapted, when the instrument is operated to press the handles apart permitting the ready entrance of a nut into the recess 17.

From the foregoing it will be seen that a practical implement has been disclosed, the preferred form of which is capable of be ing compactly folded for transportation or storage.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.

In a nut cracker, the combination with a lever having an angularly turned end, a second lever pivoted in said end, a recess formed in the upper surface of the first named lever adapted to receive a nut to be cracked, a pair of handles extending outwardly from said levers, hinges connecting between said handles and said levers, a clip containing a socket secured to one of said handles, and abent fiat spring engageable within the socket of said clip adapted to press said handles normally apart.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature. n

FRANK ZALJ S.

ve cents each, by addressing thecommissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

